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After getting a brand-new Government House built and holding mock trials to rehearse officials in their new duties, Commissioner Maude, satisfied with his job, bade a long farewell to Pitcairn. Until the war is over, its only regular contact with the outside world will probably be its radio...
...head at the Metropolitan Opera, took with him complete editions of the essays of Emerson and Montaigne. Informed that Knight had been "in a partial state of intoxication" when he wrote the letters, the judge who sentenced him observed:' "A lot of lawyers would like to know the brand he used...
Once before big, bald Henry J. Kaiser, the West Coast's dam-building, shipbuilding, build-anything tycoon, had blitzed Washington into giving him what he wanted. That was when he wangled $50,000,000 from Jesse Jones to build a steel plant to supply his brand-new amateur shipyards. Now he was out after bigger stakes. He had broached direct to the public his bold proposal to build 5,000 giant cargo planes (TIME, July 27). Now he descended on Washington with the avowed intention of creating public clamor for his breath-taking scheme...
...mechanics are harder to find than smooth airfields in Africa. But airline operators expect to squeak through the pilot shortage by giving jobs to 1) independent air taxi operators; 2) airmen from the Civil Air Patrol; 3) newly trained men. For more mechanics the airlines have turned to a brand-new mass training technique. In Kansas City, T.W.A. is training repair crew specialists in 60 days v. two years for old-line, all-round aviation mechanics. Only drawback: the 1942 model mechanic knows, for example, only the radio, or the ignition system, or cylinder work, or wing repair. To help...
...Park Avenue drawing rooms and 52nd Street nightclubs he cut an exquisite figure. Always heavily perfumed, he was in the habit of remarking complacently: "I smell to heaven." He carried his own special brand of tea in a silver snuffbox to drink in nightclubs. He wore evening scarves by Schiaparelli, delighted in yanking up his pants leg and displaying his solid-gold garter clasps, studded with his four initials. He took up golf once but dropped it immediately, after finding himself in a locker room with a crowd of muscular, boisterous players. "It was too goddamn manly," he said...